The Canadian Centenary Series

Now available as e-books for the first time and with the addition of a new introduction by Dean Oliver of the Museum of Canadian History, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Commissioned by McClelland and Stewart and launched by Jack McClelland in 1967 on the occasion of the centenary of the Confederation of Canada, the series was released throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Written for the general reader as well as for the scholar, each of the nineteen volumes of the Canadian Centenary Series is the work of a leading Canadian historian who is or was an authority on the period covered in his/her volume. Their combined efforts made a new and significant contribution to the understanding of the history of Canada.